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Archive - Oct 2, 2010

Cuba Beats Mexico in World Volleyball

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba beat Mexico 3-0 at FIVB 2010 (3) 14:41, October 02, 2010. Carlos Guerra (L) of Mexico spikes during the second round match of Pool H between Cuba and Mexico at the FIVB 2010 Men's Volleyball World Championship in Milan, Italy, on Oct. 1, 2010. Mexico lost the match 0-3. (Xinhua/Chen Haitong). Read More

UN Welcomes Talks with Mapuchee Strikers in Chile

<p style="text-align: justify;">UN applaud Friday the resumption of talks on the conflict of Mapuchee prisoners on hunger strike in Chile and asked an early solution to prevent casualties. Read More

Church: 7 jailed dissidents reject leaving Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">(AP) HAVANA. At least seven dissidents due to be freed from Cuban jails under an agreement reached with the help of the Roman Catholic Church do not want to leave their homeland for exile in Spain, the island's top cardinal said Friday. Read More

NPPC wants U.S. restrictions on Cuba trade lifted

<p style="text-align: justify;">Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:24 PM CDT. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. pork exports to Cuba will more than triple if restrictions on travel and export financing for products going to the island are lifted, according to an Iowa State University analysis. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is urging the House to take up legislation to let U.S. citizens travel to Cuba and allow direct transfers of funds from Cuban to U.S. financial institutions for products authorized for sale under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000. Read More

Cuba to add new docks, terminal at Cienfuegos port

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba and Venezuelan plan to expand capacity there to 150,000 barrels refined per day and the new berths and terminal will ensure tankers carrying more oil can come and go more freely, said Luis Medina, director of Cuba's national port authority, at a news conference Friday in Havana, 185 miles (300 kilometers) northwest of Cienfuegos.&nbsp; Read More

Cuban Congress Discusses Epidemic Control

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban experience in using biological methods to control epidemics in countries such as Brazil was one of the issues discussed Thursday at the Labiofam 2010 International Congress, which closes this Friday in Havana. Read More

Cuba to Open Fiagrop-2010 Fair Oct. 2

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tens of countries will meet at the 14th International Livestock Fair, Fiagrop 2010, to show from October 2-10 Cuba's successes in Rancho Boyeros, south Havana. Read More

The Times Channels the Oil Lobby on Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">The top story in The New York Times yesterday carried a bit of water for the oil and gas lobby. It’s about how Cuba is thinking about opening up its waters for oil drilling and how that could affect the U.S. if there were a spill. That’s a legit story, although it’s an old one. The Wall Street Journal wrote it three months ago and even then thought it worthy of just A5. The Journal back then reported that “U.S. companies won’t participate because of a longstanding trade embargo against Cuba.” But Big Oil smells Havana crude. And that’s the twist on the Times’ story. Read More

The Legacy of Arthur Penn

<p style="text-align: justify;">GRANMA. September 30, 2010 NEW YORK .- The U.S. director Arthur Penn, who won great fame with his film Bonnie and Clyde, died late Tuesday in New York, a day before her birthday 88 and after a long illness, The New York Times. Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in 1967, established new parameters for the representation of sex and violence in Hollywood. Read More

Cannes’ Palme d’Or Award Winning Film Screened in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.01 - 15:03:48 / [email protected]. HAVANA, CUBA.- ‘The White Ribbon’, the film that won the Palme d’Or award during the Cannes Film Festival 2009, had its Cuban premiere on Thursday at Havana’s Chaplin Theater as part of the Cinema Critics’ Review Week. Read More